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despite these contributions, women entrepreneurs still face unique challenges that prevent them from fully participating in
entrepreneurial ecosystems and succeeding.
Women entrepreneurs face many challenges that can hinder their entrepreneurial journey.
• Access to Technology
Access to technological skills, including reliable Internet connectivity and necessary hardware, is a significant barrier for
women entrepreneurs, especially in underserved communities. Limited access to essential technological infrastructure can
hinder the effective use of digital tools and platforms, placing women professionals at a disadvantage compared to their
male counterparts.
• Digital Literacy
Digital literacy, which includes the ability to manipulate and use digital tools effectively, has been identified as a key barrier
to the adoption of IT by female employees. Inadequate digital literacy may prevent women from using ICTs for professional
development, online marketing and networking, and limit their participation in the digital economy.
• Gender Bias and Stereotypes
Gender biases and stereotypes exist in the digital realm and can shape women’s experiences in using ICT for business.
Stereotypes associated with women’s technological skills may affect their confidence in adopting and incorporating ICT
into their business strategy.
• Lack of Support and Education
Working women often lack the support networks of their male counterparts. This can make it difficult to find mentors,
mentors, and other resources that can help them succeed and they often have to juggle the demands of their careers with
the demands of their families and personal lives mixed with. This can be very challenging, especially for those just starting
out. Women entrepreneurs often lack confidence in their abilities. This can be attributed to the challenges they face, as well
as the lack of role models. Women tend to have less capital than men, which can make starting and growing a business
difficult
III. ICT FOR WOMEN’S ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Information technology provides essential tools for productivity and competitiveness. Some benefits Applications of ICTs
for operations include saving time, exceeding distance and enabling accessibility other issues are markets, remote contacts,
and discounts Cost. ICT can help women entrepreneurs overcome some of the challenges, e.g. hard times (because of
women’s many roles and responsibilities), social stigmas, few physical development, finances, education, skills training,
information, as well as existing and potential markets
Entrepreneurs and women entrepreneurs in particular, benefit greatly especially by using ICTs as a means or platform to
support their businesses in the community, professional development, finance, health and access to education. Moreover,
women can expand their business worldwide through online platforms
A. Access to finance
ICT has proven effective as a supporting tool at micro and macro-levels Ensuring economies of scale. Women in business
meet General and gender-related challenges during work. For them (basically from developing areas), access to finance has
always been a major challenge. Addressing this issue has opened up some paradigm-shifting opportunities for IT. And one
of the transformative developments based on mobile phones, which explode in mobile phone services offered are mobile

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banking including deposits and withdrawals. Remittances, payments, and small loans. They became involved in debt,
Investments, daily sales revenue and a lot more important financial transactions Easy for women entrepreneurs.
Example: The most widely cited example of mobile banking is probably M-Pesa that started in Kenya in 2007. In 2013, 43
per cent of Kenya’s GDP flowed through M-Pesa with over 237 million person-to-person transactions.38 M-Pesa facilitated
the creation of thousands of small businesses by enabling users to transfer money to each other and make payments
directly to suppliers using their mobile phones. With the success of M-Pesa, many other countries are also providing
mobile banking services, including Smart Money in the Philippines, which has the second largest subscriber base globally.
Many of its users are female migrant workers from the Philippines.
B. Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding is another breakthrough for women activists, irrespective of their socio-economic backgrounds and
locations. At the present time Thanks to information and communication, crowdfunding is becoming more accessible and
popular by various types of online crowdfunding platforms, which allow entrepreneurs to pitch their business ideas to a
global online community and seek their financial contributions for change ideas into reality. Crowdfunding has the
potential to grow business by expanding the pool of investors from whom they can raise additional funds the traditional
group of owners, relatives and venture capitalists. Even though women generally face difficult conditions to access capital.
Crowdfunding has proved very successful for them. In some major international crowdfunding sites, women entrepreneurs
are more successful than their male counterparts in meeting their fundraising goals. Success rates in some other areas are
much lower same between male and female fundraisers.
Example: In Japan, crowdfunding has become a huge phenomenon among women. Between 2014 and 2015, the total
number of women trying to raise necessary money increased nearly 50 per cent. According to ReadyFor site, the ideas
posted by women include cafes, community schools, medical devices and alternative energy solutions.
C. Political participation
Through the National e-Government Programme, governments in many countries connecting with citizens using
information technology, especially the Internet and mobile phones. In some cases Countries, governments have created
online portals that connect women entrepreneurs and government officials, and/or women employees were allowed
contact with any of them current. This gives women entrepreneurs access to policy workshops and opportunities to
participate in government programs. However women in the Asia-Pacific region do not actively participate in these online
platforms.
D. ICT-based enterprises
ICT-based enterprises have been the front-runners in creating new business models and innovations in entrepreneurship.
According to a latest report on

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